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THE White House has revealed the surprising reason behind Donald Trump’s mysterious bruise that appeared during his meeting with Emmanuel Macron.
Trump was photographed with a large dark mark on the back of his right hand as he sat opposite the French leader inside the Oval Office.
A bruise was spotted on Trump’s hand during their handshake[/caption]
The two leaders shook hands as they held talks over Ukraine[/caption]
The duo shared a warm embrace as they met in the White House[/caption]
The duo’s first hearty encounter happened outside The White House during the French President’s visit for talks over Ukraine.
The two leaders rekindled their bromance as they shared a lengthy handshake, hugged and laughed – despite their disagreements.
Macron and Trump – famous for their long and firm shakes – then shook hands again as they appeared in front of reporters.
But a close-up photo of the gripping handshake of the two leaders shows what appears to be a large bruise on the Republican’s hand.
The picture sparked frenzied speculation on social media.
However, the White House has now revealed that the bruise was from Trump shaking hands “all day every day”.
Newly appointed White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “President Trump has bruises on his hand because he’s constantly working and shaking hands all day every day.
“President Trump is a man of the people, his commitment is unwavering, and he proves that every single day.”
Trump’s bruise was spotted after the duo had an intense 12-second handshake outside the White House.
They then shook hands again in jest in front of reporters.
And another uncomfortable handshake happened around 90 minutes later during a press conference.
The duo has a long history of public displays of affection – with a 29-second handshake going viral in the past.
Their legendary handshake was in Brussels in 2017 – the year they both started their first presidential terms- was so intense it left Trump’s hand with white finger marks.
During their meeting, Trump was then seen tapping Macron’s arm as he shared a tale about a meeting in Paris with the French President seen gripping Trump’s hand as he laughed.
During a different meeting at the White House, Trump – speaking of his French bromance – said: “They’re all saying what a great relationship we have and they’re actually correct.
“It’s not fake news…we do have a very special relationship.”
Jokingly wiping a piece of dandruff off Macron’s shoulder, Trump added: “In fact, I’ll get that little piece of dandruff off. We have to make him perfect. He is perfect.”
The pair were caught sharing awkward kisses on the cheek and held hands their hands as they walked around.
The meeting of the two leaders came amid growing tensions as the US sided with Russia in a UN vote on a resolution demanding that Putin’s troops leave Ukraine.
Donald Trump leads President Emmanuel Macron of France to the Oval Office during a state visit to The White House[/caption]
US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron appear to share an awkward kiss during a press conference at the White House[/caption]
The French leader grimaced after Trump incorrectly suggested European assistance to Ukraine would be in the form of loans.
Macron interrupted his 78-year-old counterpart and corrected him: “No, in fact, to be frank.
“We paid 60 per cent of the total effort and it was — like the US — loans, guarantees, grants.”
Trump smirked and said after Macron spoke: “If you believe that, it’s ok with me.”
Macron added: “Europe is willing to step up to be a stronger partner, to do more on defence and security on this continent, as well as to be a reliable partner.”
Macron made it clear that Ukraine’s future should be prioritised and that the US and Europe need to “shoulder” responsibilities.
He said: “This peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine or a ceasefire without guarantees, it must allow for Ukrainian sovereignty and allow Ukraine to negotiate with other stakeholders regarding the issues that affect it.
“It is also a country in which we need to shoulder our responsibilities so that we ensure security and stability for Ukraine and for the entire region.”
Despite their disagreements, the two leaders exchanged compliments as Macron hailed their “friendship from your first term.”
Trump praised the Frenchman for the restoration of the fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral.
By Georgie English, Foreign News Reporter
FRANCE is said to be ready to deploy a “nuclear shield” to help protect Europe from any looming Russian threats.
President Emmanuel Macron is leading the way in helping to protect the Continent after he held “productive” talks with Donald Trump over ending the Ukraine war.
Macron suggested a truce could be agreed between Kyiv and Moscow in a matter of weeks as he spoke to Fox News following the Trump chat.
The positive comments come just days after the conflict entered its fourth year with fighting still raging along the border.
Macron’s France have also reportedly proposed the idea of sending fighter jets carrying nuclear weapons across to Germany.
The deterrent would act as a stark warning to Russia’s tyrant Vladimir Putin.
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A MYSTERIOUS bruise was spotted on Donald Trump’s hand after he had shared at least three awkward handshakes with Emmanuel Macron.
The duo’s hearty encounter happened …
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But, the Ameri…
DONALD Trump sparked uproar yesterday after branding Ukraine’s hero wartime leader “a dictator without elections”.
The US President warned “modestly successful comedian” Volodymyr Zelensky must “move fast or he is not going to have a country left”.
US President Donald Trump branded Ukraine’s hero wartime leader ‘a dictator without elections’[/caption]
The President warned Volodymyr Zelensky must ‘move fast or he is not going to have a country left’[/caption]
But Mr Trump was accused of living in “fantasy land” over his sympathetic view toward Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin.
The war of words erupted after the Ukrainian leader, a stand-up comedian before he was elected, accused Mr Trump of living in “a disinformation space”.
That followed the US leader’s claims that Zelensky — rather than invader Putin — started the conflict three years ago.
In return, Mr Trump used his Truth Social platform to accuse Mr Zelensky of playing his predecessor Joe Biden “like a fiddle”.
The US President said: “He refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden like a fiddle.
“A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left.
“In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia, something all admit only Trump, and the Trump Administration, can do.”
Mr Trump also said Europe “has failed to bring peace”.
Last night Sir Keir Starmer hit out after speaking to Mr Zelensky.
His spokesman said: “The Prime Minister expressed his support for President Zelensky as Ukraine’s democratically-elected leader and said it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war as the UK did during World War Two.
“The Prime Minister reiterated his support for the US-led efforts to get a lasting peace in Ukraine.”
There was widespread dismay at Mr Trump’s claims Ukraine should never have taken up arms against the invading Russians and his comments that the war was entirely avoidable and Mr Zelensky was not elected and unpopular.
Those comments were widely condemned around the globe amid false claims by Mr Trump that the US had given more support to Ukraine than Europe had.
Elections in Ukraine were suspended under martial law following the 2022 invasion.
Politicians warned the US attacks would only unite people behind their leader.
Despite Mr Trump’s claims, Europe has given more aid to Ukraine than America, both in real cash terms and relative to GDP.
Europe handed over £109billion compared to America’s £94billion, according to Berlin’s Kiel Institute.
The tirade comes after the US leader said he was disappointed Mr Zelensky had complained about being left out of peace talks with Russia.
He said Kyiv should have been willing to make concessions and: “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.”
The US President was accused of living in ‘fantasy land’ over his sympathetic view toward Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin[/caption]
There was widespread dismay at Donald Trump’s claims Ukraine should never have taken up arms against the invading Russians[/caption]
Mr Zelensky responded by saying: “With all due respect to President Donald Trump, as leader of a nation we respect greatly . . . he is living in this disinformation space.”
Vice-President JD Vance branded the Ukraine response disgraceful, warning Mr Zelensky not to bait the White House.
He told the National Pulse: “The idea he’s going to litigate his disagreements with the President in the public square . . . is not a good way to deal with President Trump.”
UK Defence Secretary John Healey said: “Three years ago, one country illegally invaded another, and since then the Ukrainians have been fighting for their freedom.
“They’ve been fighting for their future, and they still are.”
Former UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace accused the White House of pumping out fake news, adding Mr Trump’s words were “straight out of the Kremlin talking points”.
Ex-PM Boris Johnson, who was in office when the war began, said: “Of course Ukraine didn’t start the war. You might as well say that America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor.”
But he claimed Mr Trump’s statements are meant to “shock Europeans into action”.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian politicians insisted support for Mr Zelensky is overwhelming and it is insulting for Mr Trump to demand elections.
MPs in Kyiv warned it would be impossible to hold ballots before a ceasefire and said their leader has more than 50 per cent support.
Speaking on The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots show, a leading Trump ally — Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw — warned Europe must become “uncomfortably aggressive” with Russia ahead of any negotiations.
Ukraine is under a lot of pressure in the east, but Russia is continuing to take massive casualties for tiny gains of territory.
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He said it was time to “out crazy” the Kremlin, with boots on the ground in Ukraine. Western officials have insisted Britain is determined to keep Ukraine “in the fight” — despite the war of words.
A source said former President Biden gave Kyiv enough weapons to survive into the summer before he left office. But they warned Ukraine needed more troops to replace their dead and wounded.
They said: “We’re fortunate that at the end the Biden administration was able to put a lot of kit into Ukraine, and that sustains Ukraine.
“Ukraine is under a lot of pressure in the east, but Russia is continuing to take massive casualties for tiny gains of territory.” They warned: “We know Ukraine has got to do more with its people.”
Shortly after this week’s peace talks in Saudi Arabia between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian officials, a Russian drone blitz on Odesa injured four and left tens of thousands without power.
It was just hours after Moscow said it never hit civilian targets.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking after the talks, claimed his country “never endangered Ukraine’s energy system”.
The US request for a pause in Russia’s power station blitz was the only concession asked for.
DONALD Trump is delusional and is throwing allies to the wolves.
The Sun’s reporters have risked their lives to report the truth from Ukraine’s frontlines and it is nothing like the fairytale that he describes from Mar-a-Lago.
Make no mistake. Vladimir Putin started this war. Not Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval rating is not four per cent. It is probably higher than Mr Trump’s at 50 per cent, based on the latest surveys.
Kyiv has not held elections because the country is at war. Britain suspended elections when World War Two was going on.
And Europe has given more aid than the US — both in real cash terms and relative to GDP. Europe gave £109billion to £94billion, according to Berlin’s Kiel institute.
The US President is right that the war is a bloodbath. But his claim that “millions have unnecessarily died” is simply not rooted in reality.
Around 1.1million people have been killed and injured in total, from both sides. Western governments and Nato estimate a quarter of them are dead.
So why is the world’s most powerful man spouting Kremlin inspired nonsense? It looks like Trump has a man-crush on Putin and a vendetta against Zelensky.
At the moment he seems willing to give Putin everything that he wants. So the question now for Mr Trump and his allies is, whose side is he on?
Many of President Trump’s media allies were quick to celebrate this week’s negotiations, a contrast to the deep unease expressed by the foreign policy establishment.
FOR those in the UK and the EU not following US politics on a regular basis, there was a critically important reason why then-candidate and former President Donald J. Trump selected Ohio Republican Senator JD Vance as his running mate back in July of 2024.
While Vance did bring plenty of positives to the table – young, intelligent, articulate, unflappable, and a poverty-stricken childhood which gave him a connection with working-class America – there was one above all which most mattered to Trump.
Donald Trump and his No.2 JD Vance[/caption]
Vance speaking at the Munich security conference[/caption]
That being that Vance would carry on and build upon the Trump agenda.
Many in the US have come to realise that Vance is not only “Trump 3.0” in so many ways, but an advocate for Trump’s policies on steroids when it comes to what he personally believes.
A reality many in Europe just witnessed up close and personal when Vice President Vance delivered a long overdue wake-up call to the leaders of Europe with his anti-censorship, anti-unchecked immigration, defence of free speech remarks at the Munich Security Conference before a clearly hostile audience.
To that “hostile” point, Vance actually made Christoph Heusgen, the outgoing head of the conference, cry.
You simply can’t make this up.
What did the 40-year-old vice president of the United States say to make Heusgen break down in tears?
For starters, Vance correctly pointed out: “The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor.
“What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
Vance then stared down the US allies at the conference and asked how they could be bastions of freedom while robbing a growing number of their citizens of free expression.
As many in the audience sat and glared at Vance for daring to raise these subjects in such a high-profile conference, he then delivered the knock-out punch: “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.
“Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people that elected me and elected President Trump.”
Quite predictably, many on the far left and within the entrenched elites attacked Vance for his remarks.
One headline read: “Vance cosies up to Germany’s far-right, scolds E.U. leaders for not engaging with extremists.”
I would suggest to those elitists that they “read the room” when it comes to the working-class citizens of their respective countries – as in the vast majority of the population – as well as figure out ways to engage with the Trump-Vance administration rather than smearing the two men with juvenile insults in a vain search of praise from other far-left, out-of-touch elitists.
Supporters of Germany’s right-wing AfD wave flags during a campaign rally and the party looks likely to make striking gains in the upcoming elections[/caption]
Vance also spoke with a number of key European figures including Nato boss Mark Rutte[/caption]
The “extremists” the far-left and the entrenched elites refer to are often hard-working men and women living paycheck-to-paycheck seeking to survive in a system foisted upon them by wealthy elitists who never have to worry about the consequences of their own often ignorant or ideologically driven actions.
The “extremists” the far-left and elitists who want to censor and even jail, are often your family members, your neighbours, or your co-workers.
Men and women all across Europe – and in the US – are also deeply concerned about unchecked or illegal immigration and how that will — or currently does — affect their quality of life and safety.
Yet another subject the far-left and elitists scream should never be broached.
Unfortunately for them, JD Vance went there as well.
DONALD Trump’s number two blasted the continent at Munich Security Conference over free speech crackdowns amd immigration laws.
It came just a day after a horror car attack in the city left two dead and 36 people injured – including children.
Suspect Farhad N is being investigated by terror cops after he allegedly rammed a Mini Cooper into a group of demonstrators in the Bavarian capital on Thursday.
Cops initially said he is a 24-year-old Afghan who arrived in Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2016 before later rectifying their comments by saying Farhad N does have a work permit.
Vance, who himself incorrectly labelled the man an asylum seeker, used it as just one example of a concerning number of recent incidents across Europe.
He spoke about issues in Sweden where a man was seen burning the Koran in public before being killed in the city of Sodertalje.
And the annulled election in Romania which was said to have been heavily influenced by Russia.
The Vice President used many examples of to tell European officials that many of the continent’s issues stem from “unvetted immigration“.
He lectured the audience by saying their nation’s citizens “didn’t vote to open floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants”.
VP Vance also took aim at Britain as he heavily criticised the government for its “backsliding” free speech laws.
He said: “When I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners.
“And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs.”
He used the example of 51-year-old Adam Smith-Connor who was jailed for breaching a safe zone around an abortion clinic in Bournemouth.
Vance explained: “After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before.”
The conviction was later confirmed to be unrelated to Smith-Connor’s thoughts while he was in the safe zone.
Vance then hit out at Scotland for similar complaints over “safe access zones” designed to stop anti-abortion campaigners.
His speech ended with him urging the whole of Europe to look towards his boss Donald Trump’s leadership.
He said: “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech I fear is in retreat.
“In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town and under Donald Trump’s leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.”
His comment was met with a muted applause as he walked off stage.
The US vice president stressed there is “nothing more urgent” than countering the issue of mass migration that has come to Europe.
Vance then went on: “Almost one in five people living in this country moved here from abroad. That is, of course, an all-time high.
It’s a similar number, by the way, in the United States, also an all-time high. And we know the situation. It didn’t materialize in a vacuum.
It’s a result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent and others across the world over a decade.”
Note to the leaders in the UK and the EU, Vance is not being the least bit controversial.
At least not to the working-class citizens of your nations.
Rather, he is raising subjects which are on their minds every single day of their lives.
About the UK in particular, Vance mentioned that the Brexit movement had been the only truly democratic response to European nations letting “open the floodgates to millions of illegal immigrants. Agree or disagree,” he continued, “they voted for it.
And more and more, all over Europe, they’re voting for political leaders who promise an end to out-of-control migration.”
Again, the far-left which controls the majority of the media in the UK and the EU will label such populists as “extremists.”
A number of senior officials in the Starmer government have smeared Trump with vile language in the past[/caption]
But as they do, they might want to take a moment to notice what JD Vance and President Trump already know.
That means that these “extremists” are opening their eyes, asking questions, and seeking new leaders with common-sense solutions.
A number of senior officials in the Starmer government have smeared Trump with vile language in the past.
As we have seen after Vance spoke in Munich, many on the left have openly insulted him as well.
Maybe the name-calling “diplomats” in the UK and the EU need a refresher course in “International Relations 101.”
Childishly insulting the leaders of the United States will not produce the desired results.
Like no other president in modern US history, Trump is delivering on his promises at breakneck speed.
And because he is, his popularity is rising.
There is a better-than-even chance that when Trump’s term ends in 2028, JD Vance will succeed him as president.
This means the UK and the EU will have to deal with this administration for the next eight years at least.
Rather than name-calling and crying, why not seek out common ground?
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence.